Said the judge, “I am 66 years of age. When I was 19 years of age, the sexual proclivities of young people wasn’t anything, anything like I see today.”

Sure, you’re totally right here. But in terms of the Party Discipline game Mitch is playing, there’s a small but real propaganda advantage to the Democrats here and they need to be encouraged to maintain solidarity as fiercely as the Republicans have done because, on issue after issue, Democrats are on the side of the…

The only upside to this story is that while the truly evil Mitch McConnell experienced a tiny, little crack in Party Discipline, losing two of his caucus in this clusterfuck of a vote, the Democrats (knowing from the first that it was almost certainly a losing battle) held the line.

I just wish Michelle Obama would start suing right-wing bloggers, news outlets, journalists, pundits, and talk radio hosts for some of the smack they spent eight years talking about her. She could then donate the proceeds to Planned Parenthood—it would be enough to keep the organization afloat for several centuries,…

Total nightmare.  That poor child, her poor parents. Your whole life can be turned inside out in a split second, and you can never walk it back—you are trapped with the nightmare forever after. Parenthood truly does make us hostages to fortune.

Let’s not forget the so-called “apartment bombings” of 1999, which—whoever may have been behind them, coughVladimircough— helped shore up and solidify Putin’s power at a critical moment, when his popularity was at a dangerously low ebb, as he responded with an aggressive onslaught against “Chechen terrorists”…

That’s the spirit!

Human beings are no better than they have to be, on the whole: and once a brutal tone is set, it’s almost impossible to unset it.

The last major Klan revival before Bannon, et al, came along to brighten up the skyline with burning crosses and nukes, or whatever awaits, erupted in 1915, just as (not even a little bit coincidentally) D W Griffiths’ infamous, toxic, soul-destroying, venomously racist, but technically brilliant movie ”Birth of a…

It’s a fucking coup d’etat, and the Republican Congressional leadership, starting with Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan—who are, realistically, the only people in a position to take this madness on frontally and forcefully and maybe stop it before it blows up in our faces—are too busy giggling in the background over how…

Heaven help us, we’re all thinking those things.

This is what fascists do. This is fascism in action.

A million dollars a day, utter mayhem in Manhattan, a business-destroying problem for many of the entrepreneurs in the area, and the right wingers are cooing about what a good mother she is (maybe she is, who knows, I don’t, although at a glance I would say no, probably not; the nanny is probably terrific, though) and…

True enough.

Bannon wants blood. The awful thing is, a subset of the American people are just as excited as he is about the prospect of a slaughter. I hope to heaven nobody is hurt. This is pointless, and dreadful, and Republican voters, heaven curse them all, will cheer.

How the fuck do you spend $2 million a month?

My kids are Jewish on their dad’s side, and are affirming their Jewishness right now because if you’re a decent human being, what else are you going to do? Hide behind the fact that your ma was a WASP?

That’s bold. Good for them. Every time I come right up to the edge of just giving up on America forever, because, under the circumstances, why wouldn’t you? somebody goes and does something good.

This is the book of which Roxane Gay wrote, “I give Picoult a lot of credit for trying, and for supporting her attempt with rigorous research, good intentions and an awareness of her fallibility. Picoult’s flawed novel will most likely be well received by her intended audience [white people]. I trust that the next…

By “take down” I don’t actually mean physical assassination, I mean destruction, total political annihilation, ruthless and absolute, humiliation, being driven out of the village forever, which is something Mitch McConnell knows a thing or two about, having destroyed more than one adversary in his day.